1. BILC Professional Seminar Helsinki, Finland 4-8 October “Increasing proficiency levels: What works and what doesn't “
Keith L Wert, BILC Chair

2. BILC Update Since last year at Ellwangen
Annual Conference
STANAG 6001 Testing Workshop
BILC “Courses”
BILC Cooperative Visits
Special Initiatives
Request from NATO/ACT
Some thoughts on the theme
A Remembrance

3. BILC Steering Committee
Chair
Keith L Wert
GRB ( )
DEU ( )
USA ( )
CAN ( )
USA/PLTCE ( )
BGR ( )
Senior Advisor
Dr. Ray T Clifford
Secretary
Peggy A Garza
Julie J. Dubeau
Associate Secretaries
Jana Vasilj-Begovic

4. 2015 BILC Conference Madrid, Spain 3-7 May
Theme: NATO requirements versus national policies: Bridging the divide at the language school
Study Groups Topics:
Common Challenges Faced by Language Training Managers
Assessing NATO Operational Language Performance
Bridging the Divide with Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL)
Beyond the BILC Website: Marketing BILC Events and Courses
Forecasting Requirements: From Needs Analysis to Long-term Planning

5. BILC Courses NATO Standardization (STANAG 6001)
NATO ACT 140
Language Testing Seminars (LTS) 2wks
Advanced Language Testing Seminars (ALTS) 3wks
Language Standards and Assessment Seminar (LSAS) 2wks
NATO ACT 547
English Language Faculty Development Workshop (FDW) 2wks
Language Testing Seminar
Funding:
NATO Self-Payers
NATO Subsidies for
eligible partners

7. STANAG 6001 Testing Workshops
Introduction to BILC
STANAG 6001 Testing Workshops
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina 2010
Testing speaking
Stockholm, Sweden 2011
Testing writing
Copenhagen, Denmark 2012
Testing listening
SHAPE Mons, Belgium 2013
Integrating test development stages
Reichenau, Austria, 2014
Item development workshop
Vilnius, Lithuania, 2015
Challenges in Testing (text editing, authenticity, & Level 4)

8. STANAG 6001 Testing Workshop 8-10 September 2015
“Challenges in Testing:
Text Editing, Authenticity, & Level 4”
The specific challenges addressed:
Text editing (listening and reading): Hands-on practical work
What is authenticity? Presentations and panel discussions
Level 4: An update from the Level 4 Working Group and practical activities in text rating

9. Twenty countries. Seven Facilitators
The Czech Republic has offered to host the next one.

10. BILC Cooperative Visits
Ukraine, October 2014
Georgia, March 2015
United Kingdom, April 2015
Mongolia, Sept 2015

11. Special Initiatives BILC SharP Level 4 Working Group
NATO-Partnership Training and Education Centre (PTEC) collaboration
BILC SharP

12. Ellwagen
National POC needs to connect to Anna Ivanova

13. Request from Allied Command Transformation Joint Force Trainer
BILC Chair attended Steering Group (SG) NATO Training Group (NTG) Meeting June 2015 Annual meeting to hear reports from and provide guidance to the NATO Training Group and various service and specialty sub groups. Presented on BILC organization and activities and why they are important.

14. Request from Allied Command Transformation Joint Force Trainer
1. In accordance with References A and B, the SGNTG kindly asks BILC to conduct SGNTG 2015 Action Item Numbers 6 and 7 as follows: a. Integration of Language Education and Military Training. BILC to investigate the portability of NATO military language certification into civilian terms and vice versa, based on discussions during SGNTG 2015 Agenda Item #13.1. b. Integration of Language Education into Military Training & Exercises. Based on discussions during SGNTG 2015 Agenda Item #13.1, it was determined that a Study should be conducted to assess whether Language Education can be integrated into Military Training and Exercises more efficiently. BILC volunteered to conduct an informal review internally.

15. “Increasing proficiency levels: What works and what doesn't “ Some thoughts on the theme

16. BILC Chairman Emeritus
Mr Herbert Walinsky (DEU)